NEW YORK, April 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- At the 2017
Tribeca Film Festival, IBM (NYSE: IBM) experts and filmmakers will
discuss how artificial intelligence can be applied across
storytelling mediums such as film and video, web content, gaming,
augmented reality and virtual reality to enhance human expertise
and creativity.
Panel: How VR, Games and Artificial Intelligence
Deepen Learning and Engagement
Wednesday, April 26 from
11 a.m. - Noon
Studio 5 Lounge on 6th floor of The Hub, Spring
Studios, 50 Varick Street, New York,
NY
Porter Stowell, serious gaming
expert joins virtual reality creators Fred Volhuer and Gregoire
Parain for a discussion on the intersection of healthcare,
technology and artificial intelligence as it relates to their work.
The VR creators will discuss with the IBM game design experts how
Watson can be used within games
like Minecraft to educate at-risk school students about infectious
diseases by asking Watson
questions in the game.
Panel: The Quest for AI and
Creativity
Wednesday, April 26 from 2:00 p.m. – 3:00
p.m.
Studio 5 Lounge on 6th floor of The Hub, Spring
Studios, 50 Varick Street, New York,
NY
IBM Fellow Dr. John
Smith talks with virtual reality creator Kevin Cornish (Remember: Remember, TFF 2017)
about organic integration of Artificial Intelligence in
entertainment. Cornish is creator of the upcoming VR project 36Q,
which uses AI in its interface to examine how a user can fall in
love with someone using a simple set of questions. Dr. Smith is IBM
Fellow and Manager of Multimedia and Vision at IBM T. J. Watson
Research Center. He leads IBM's Research & Development on image
and video analysis and understanding and led efforts to use IBM
Watson cognitive platform for the first ever AI-created movie
trailer for 20th Century Fox's horror flick, Morgan. Moderated
by Loren Hammonds Tribeca Programmer, Film & Interactive. A
sneak peek of the VR experience will also be available to demo in
the lounge.
In addition, the Tribeca Film Festival and IBM are teaming up to
present "Storytellers with Watson", a competition for creative
builders across media and entertainment including Tribeca's alumni
network to use IBM Watson's cognitive computing platform to create
original stories. Details on the competition and submission process
can be found here: https://ibm.biz/Bdizph
About IBM Watson: Pioneering a New Era of
Computing
Watson represents a new era in
computing called cognitive computing, where systems understand the
world in a way more similar to humans: through senses, learning,
and experience. Watson
continuously learns from previous interactions, gaining in value
and knowledge over time. With the help of Watson, organizations are harnessing the power
of cognitive computing to transform industries, help professionals
do their jobs better, and solve important challenges.
As part of IBM's strategy to accelerate the growth of cognitive
computing, Watson is open to the
world, allowing a growing community of developers, students,
entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts to easily tap into the most
advanced and diverse cognitive computing platform available today.
Watson solutions are being built,
used and deployed in more than 45 countries and across 20 different
industries.
For more information on IBM Watson, visit: ibm.com/watson.
Join the conversation at #ibmwatson.
Nancy Ngo
IBM Media Relations
nngo@us.ibm.com
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